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MAIL" REVIEWS Revolutionary Thrills In Roumania
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FOR CHILDREN
"THE 1929 CHRISTMAS TREE"
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"The 1929 Christmas
Benn,
Tree" (6/-
He was capable of killing on oc- casion, we do not doubt, but his favourite little joke was to break tubes of laughing and other un. pleasant gases under people's noses. Wyndham could be very unromantic ["The Five Flamboys", by Francis at times, but he proves himself, in Beading. (Hodder & Stough-the last chapter, to be a quite ton 7/64, net).]
gallant individual with a sporting (By "Rookworm") To be drawn slowly and seduc- tively into a revolutionary plot to course, the heroine) is unnecessari- the Children's Country Holiday Ann Winspeare (who is, of net), which is published in aid of overthrow the regime in Roumanis, ly cold and off-handed at the be. Fund. accompanied by an amusing con- ginning of the book, and her temper panion, Is the enticing prospect for is not sweetened by the fact that readers of this readable book.
Mr. Beeding, who already has five la abducted right under her eyes King Peter, whose governess she is, novels to his credit, never taken his from crooks seriously, and sketches-in beastly laughing gas. There is to a raнway carriage by the even their most diabolical acts with be said in her credit that the an ironical humour. Take makes a very brave effort to And Moussoraky for example: a dis- the boy King; but she is an angry agreeable gentleman, a child of the little person, and some of us may Internationale, with tousled hair feel that she deserved no: Baxter, und a fanatic's eyes, who trembles but Wyndham, with ccatasy when he quotes Shelley, yet who is, by instinct, nothing better than a cold-blooded butcher. The author makes one feel that the crimes contemplated and committed by his characters are not wicked so much as "un- pleasant."
carried out with the skill of an 'ex The plot is well conceived and perienced hand, There are
few exaggerated denouements, and all the situations are horn out, of the story, and are not strung on as haphazard occurrences. Thrill de- velops out of, rather than merely John Baxter, the hero, is a typi- follows, thrill, and the characters cal Englishman; sensible, with a themselves live, (and live well). true eye for comedy, no ability for dining on the best possible food the sentimental, yet possessed of a and wines. But as Baxter occuples whimsical outlook that almost a good position on the Secretariat, amounts to Irony, and a determina-jof the League of Nations, he can, tion to take nothing too seriously. apparently, afford to distribute The whole story is told by Baxter, largesse to waiters without a tight who is an admirable raconteur, with sensation in the throat. some fineese, restraint, and a good enough education to see through people.
Another character to whom many readers should become attached is Colonel Granby, British Secret agent, who very ably and at no sali personal risk, impersonates a murdered Jew who, in his unen- viable lifetime, tried to talk and live like a Scotsman. So Granby is faced with a double task, but carries it off with eclat, despite the discomfort which fidelity to details (such as chewing gum, not smok- ing, or drinking) entails.
One agrees with the author that inherent in Granby is something of the genius when, in ord to erente confusion and elude his captors, ha plugs the spout of a soda water bottle with chewing gum and causes an explosion. He is alive to all dangers, and even arranges to have his leg "broken" in a car accident, that he may the more perfectly executo his plans.
The villain is not altogether an unlikeable personality, but he has an irritating manner of behaving like an Elizabettan courtier, com- plete with beard and swagger. But he is witty, nonchalant even in danger, and knows how to turn a graceful or ironic phrase to suit all occasions. The trouble is that he takes himself seriously, and sighs in explanation of his pecadilloes, that he was born out of his time. As he himself says in the throes of an unsuccessful love proposal, "I am an anachronism. I was born too late. I am the last of the condot
tiere, I live in the Ronaissance." I am a misfit in the modern world." And so on. What he really was, of course, was an over-cultured ad- venturer who, as Granby said, would find to his cost it did not pay to adopt Elizabethan morals in the modern age.
What induced him, we are left wondering, to play a leading part in a plot engendered in Moscow to kidnap the boy King of Roumania, and overthrow the Government!
The description of Geneva and of the surrounding lake and mountain, scenery, is delineated with quiet ad- miration, and bears the restrained subtlety of the artist
"The Five Flamboys," which be- gins with a Scotch joke and a mur- der, can be recommended to any one who appreciates a thrill, but cannot read Edgar Walace.
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that the entire contents have been In a Publishers' Note it is stated
the authors and artists on behalf contributed free of any charge.by
debt of gratitude is expressed for of the Holidays Fund. A special
sery World" for valuable augges assistance rendered by "The Nur- tlons, to Mr. David Low and the "Evening Standard" for permission, very readily granted, to use illus- trations of the magnificent articles
and Wilfred of the famous Musso. Pep, Squeak grace several pages through the courtesy of the "Dally Mirror."
The volume-a handsome one for any girl or boy on Christmas Day and indeed every day is full of good things such noted authors and artists as for the juveniles by
E. F. Benson, Algernon Blackwood, John Drinkwater, Cosmo Hamilton, Shella Kaye-Smith, and W. Pett- ridge, Cecil Alden, Mabel Lucio Attwell, George Belcher, Sydney Carline, Hilda Cowham, and David
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It is printed on various tints of ink
that impart a distinctly "Christmassy" look that cannot but appeal to juveniles not to speak of these grown-ups whose task is often to read out stories to their kiddies.
publication
As a gift book at Christmas this слп be confidently recommended as one of the best of the London Christmas book season this year.
Miss Carmen Dee Barnes, sixteen-year-old author of a book purporting to give an unvarnished version of the doings of girls in fashionable "finishing schools. Mrs. George F. Jackson of Nashville, Teans mother of the girl, came to New York and took her from the fashionable Gardner School for Girls after the school's principal, Miss Louise Eltinger, decided Carmen's views were too radical to permit her association with the other pupils.
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Novels on Loan So ended a form of marketing flction which was peculiar to. Britain and which, in some cases certainly, helpad novelists to make There is a little trouble in the their name and fame, because it London book world, and it is worth lightened publishing risks. It had understanding for its human as really been the child of the circu- well as its literary aspects. The Isting libraries, for the novel of great circulating libraries have three volumes was fashioned and Jet It be known that, to put it priced to be loaned by them, not gently, they must ration new books bought directly by the Individual published at prices as high as two reader. Even Mr. Rudyard Kipling suineas or more. One leading was moved to aliment for the rablishing "house has frankly "three-decker which, at a guines responded by lowering the price of several of its recent books and the only certain passage to the royalties, I must get as good a ever little difficulties may from, other houses will, no doubt, bear lalands of the 1
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